plebeian lordships
medieval benefactoria (or behetría)
do Lat. benefactoria < benefacere » povoação que tinha o direito de eleger os seus administradores; essa povoação.
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The system there was called benefactoria (in Castilian, behetría) and at first required merely that collective peasant groups pay a sort of rent on their lands and pastures to support the military aristocracy
http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/payne3.htm
The system of benefactoria, by which local peasant groups recognized the overlordship of noble families and paid them shares of produce or rent, was extended considerably during the twelfth century.
http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/payne4.htm
http://libro.uca.edu/monastic/monastic1.htm
Behetrias, called plebeian lordships, were districts and townships of peasants who were bound to have a lord, and to make him payments in money or in kind
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Spain
Behetria
behetria. (Spanish.) Lands in districts and manors in which the inhabitants could select their own lords. -Bouvier's Law. Dict. Behoof
www.citizenlaw.com/pdf/b.pdf
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behetría
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